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Adam Lambert has revealed how his pot-smoking student years led to a love of Freddie Mercury.
Lambert has been performing frontman duties for the band this year, and recently performed three dates at London's Hammersmith Apollo. In a new interview, he has revealed that his love for Queen only began when he began smoking pot as a student in LA.
"I didn’t really know so much about them," he says in an interview with The Huffington Post. "My dad had their album, so I heard things. My way of getting into 70s rock was Andrew Lloyd Webber – through theatre, Jesus Christ Superstar."
He reveals he later became 'fascinated' with Freddie Mercury and "his stage energy, his power, I thought ‘I want to sing like that'." This, he says, took place while he was "slightly arrested development, smoking pot, drawing and listening to 70s rock."
Lambert also reveals reveals no sense of intimidation working with Brian May and Roger Taylor on recent Queen shows.
"I wasn’t intimidated, just in awe," he added. "Brian and I had a lovely interaction, he’s a cool dude, then we sang 'We Are The Champions', and we had talked about doing something in the future... Something needed to happen."
Below: Adam Lambert and Queen live in London
